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Poortinga Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $3k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $68k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $201k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRAL COLLEGE | $201,000 |
| 725 MINISTRIES | $30,000 |
| THIRD CHURCH | $25,000 |
| RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CHURCH | $13,000 |
| PELLA OPERA HOUSE | $2,000 |
| LIFE 1071 | $500 |
| CHECK FOR A LUMP | $100 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
12 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CCCENTRAL COLLEGE7× · 2017–2024 · $214k · revenue +7%
- WWESLEYLIFE2× · 2017–2021 · $151k · revenue +57%
- TWTHE WELL RESOURCE CENTER3× · 2017–2019 · $75k · revenue +285%
Funded once
- TBTHE BRIDGEone grant, 2020 · $250k
- TRTHIRD REFORMED CHURCH OF PELLA IOWAone grant, 2020 · $50k
- SASUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $17k · revenue +44%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of pella regional health center is to provide healthcare and healing services with christian compassion.
As an institution of higher education committed to the reformed christian perspective, dordt university equips students, alumni, and the broader community to work effectively toward christ-centered renewal in all aspects of contemporary…
Central christian college of kansas is a four-year, non-profit liberal arts college with the primary mission of offering a christ-centered education for character.
Serving others together in faith, community and life.
The mission of aging resources of central iowa is to lead, advocate, and serve; as well as plan and coordinate resources in the provision of services to older persons in central iowa, their families, caregivers, or representatives,…
Christian caring - enhancing lives through a commitment to individualized care in a home empowered by god's love.
Central christian college of the bible (central) exists to develop servant-leaders for the church. as a traditional undergraduate bible college of the restoration movement, central equips faithful men and women for leadership ministry.
Indiana wesleyan university is a christ-centered academic community committed to changing the world by developing students in character, scholarship, and leadership.
The mission is to connect those who could use a hand with those willing to lend a hand.
Arizona christian university provides a biblically-integrated, liberal arts education equipping graduates to serve the lord jesus christ in all aspects of life, as leaders of influence and excellence.
In partnership with state and federal government, our mission is to administer programs designed to help residents in our 10-county region of southwest iowa achieve self-sufficiency.
The community betterment organization ("cbo") was formed to support central college, the city of pella, and pella regional health center, to engage in activities that such organizations would strive to engage in themselves were it not for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sunshine Acres Children's Home Inc and the most unlike its peers is 725 Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CENTRAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WESLEYLIFE ↗
- Who funds THE WELL RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds 725 MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds PELLA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CENTRAL CLUB ↗
- Who funds PELLA COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF ↗
- Who funds PELLA PRESERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds Check For a Lump ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Boat Foundation Inc · Vermeer Charitable Foundation · Pella Community Foundation · Mark & Kay Decook Charitable Founda · R & L Vermeer Foundation Inc · Peter H and E Lucille Gaass Kuyper Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Poortinga Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.